i.e. pay $5 to go back 5 days.

The time travel is permanent and one-way.

Edit: this is a one time offer and your budget is however much liquid cash you have right now. Cards are accepted, though.

For non-Americans, feel free to convert $1 USD to your currency

  • yenahmik@lemmy.world
    43·
    2 years ago

    2 days. I’ll memorize the Powerball winning numbers to win something like $500M, since I know there were no other winners.

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      That’s pretty smart. Even jumping to the one before the billion dollar win isn’t that far back, and even if time changes the chance of splitting the winnings is low.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    15·
    2 years ago

    Depends on how this works. Do I wake up in my younger body, in my previous situation? Do I still remember everything I know and remember now?

    Or do I just appear as I am right now, in the past?

    Because we’ve gone back, the money is kinda irrelevant in some cases. I would whoop out $3,650 or more out of my savings to go back a decade or more. I would give the rest to my family in case that timeline carries on, whatever is left is irrelevant to me since in the past I had $0. I’ll have to make it again.

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    2 years ago

    It’s always tempting to say things like, “Go back to being 20 and relive young adulthood again, avoiding all the stupid mistakes I made the first time around.” But I know I would make a whole new set of different stupid mistakes the second time.

    Knowing that, I would do what others have said: only go back enough days to play a winning lottery number or make some ridiculous stock options bet and become filthy rich.

    • Nkiru Anaya@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      This is a pretty common wish, I’d wager. Know everything you know now with no responsibility. Ace school cause it’d be like a review. Friends and romance would be much, much easier with your experience. You would be SO free simply be knowing it’s such a waste of time and energy worrying about certain things (am I normal, does she like me, am I ugly, etc.)

      Oh to just sit back and relax with nothing hanging over my head and no responsibilities (compared to an adult). Oh, to have that very strong feeling of wonder and know your while life ahead of you and the possibilities are endless!

      What a beautiful and splendid fantasy. If only.

      • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Also, pretty much free get-rich schemes. Betting, crypto, pharma stocks around 2019…

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      If you bought too much you’d impact it’s utility, Bitcoin exploded because people paid what would be millions for pizza, pot and presumably porn

    • alokir@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      What? You mean Hitler should have stayed in power and drones were not invented by Führer Himmler but are future tech?

      Damn, maybe Germany would have lost the war, I wonder what kind of world would that be…

  • dom@lemmy.ca
    6·
    2 years ago

    I’d go back 1 year, and put ALL my money in nvidia stock.

    I know I could make more going further back and picking other stocks, but I wouldn’t want to go back too far to unmade some of the decisions I’ve made

  • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    If someone actually said that, I would assume they are crazy and ignore them. However, in the scenario that I know they are telling the truth, I would go back to the age of 4 and change a lot of things. Even though a 4 year old doesn’t have a lot of agency over their lives, they can still influence things for the better.

    I would tell my parents that I travelled from the future, and prove it by telling them of some future events that aren’t that bad, waiting for it to happen. I would tell my parents what stocks to buy to get rich.

    I would be sure to become a good sibling, because as a kid I was completely self absorbed in my own misery and ignored everyone else.

    Also, I would spend more time with my grandmother. I never appreciated visiting her, because we lived in different cities and I always hated car travel, but she was such a wonderful human being, so I really wish to have had the chance to spend more time with her before her passing.

  • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    Do I de-age, or am I just moving to a previous point in my timeline as I am today? If I do de-age, do I at least keep all my knowledge and experience intact?

    If so, I would love to go back to my pre-schooling childhood, power through the “child genius” phase at record speed, and get some good investments started early (Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc.) so I can speed-run my retirement and live better than I currently am. Heck, since my young spongy brain absorbs knowledge much easier than my current adult brain, I could work to earn a few doctorates in STEM fields while I’m young and then try to improve the world once I reach adulthood.

    I retired last year at only 38 years old (military pension, plus disability pay), but it’s basically kept me in the same place I started out. I moved back into my childhood house and I have enough passive income to just relax and enjoy my life. So I’m essentially back to my childhood life, where I’m just doing whatever I want every day without worrying about monetary cost.

    But it’d be nice to have the money to build my childhood dream home (Modern castle/fortress with hidden rooms and passages, completely self-sustaining and off the grid, on 100+ acres of private land). And I would like to pay off all debts of my closest friends and family. (REAL friends - the ones who were good to me before they knew I was wealthy)

    I’d also like to be rich enough to be a philanthropist who can just throw millions at fixing major injustices in the world. Like, Elon Musk could literally end world hunger if he wanted and he’d hardly notice the impact to his finances. But he doesn’t give a shit, so the world continues to suffer under megalomaniacs like him.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yea I was thinking late/end of highschool would be most ideal. Do some AP exams to power through credits and then go into university with my better current work habits.

      Any earlier and I wouldn’t have much of an effect. I also would start to lose it having all those restrictions again.

      buy Bitcoin

      “What? Go do your social studies homework”

      I don’t really want to be seen as a prodigy, just to boost where I am today. I’d also get a chance to help some of my friends before they go through various problems in life

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 years ago

    If I stay mentally the same I would start over from age 8 I think, just old enough to skip the awkward part of having your parents helping you bath or wipe etc but still young enough were all of my life is ahead of me.

    With good investments I can never worry about money and I would have all the time in the world to educate myself further and develop a career in a field that I love and not worry about money.

    The only issue would be hunting down my best friend and befriending her again.

  • simple@lemm.ee
    51·
    2 years ago

    Easy question. I’ll just go back to 2010 and invest all my money in bitcoin, I won’t have to work a day in my life.